Meditiation on Mary

There were safer places;

more comfortable places;

palaces and wealthy places.

Yet you chose a daughter of the soil

who would have otherwise

lived a good and honest life;

grown and harvested crops,

cooked and washed and cared for others

and been forgotten,

to be your temporary home;

to be exalted for all time.

"My soul glorifies the Lord

and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour,

for he has been mindful

of the humble state of his servant.

From now on all generations will call me blessed."

When does an ordinary life

become extraordinary?

A mundane day

become revolutionary?

A moment in time

change history?

When God enters in,

forgives sin,

allows us to

begin again.

When we repeat

those words of Mary:

"May it be to me

as you say." 

From today's I-Church Advent Calendar